Robbie Duff Scott

Robbie Duff-Scott (1959–2016) was a self-taught British oil painter, born in Bristol.

When he was twenty-three, he exhibited a self portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

In 1985 he was a prize winner at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol.

His work has been described by The Independent as:

Stuffed, late-Victorian style, with symbolic properties: images of fading youth, broken glass, spent matches, images of absence and restlessness, patterns in the dust where there was once a picture or a key, abandoned fruit, images of weather and forest and sea creeping into the brittle urban lives of his traumatised dames.

He was the third husband of author, Lisa St Aubin de Terán and from the mid 1980s they lived in various parts of Italy, settling eventually in Umbria where their daughter Florence was born.